Girls In AI
Problem: The AI and data science fields are overwhelmingly white and male. According to AI Now Institute, more than 80% of AI professors are men, and only 15% of AI researchers at Facebook and 10% of AI researchers at Google are women. The makeup of the AI field is reflective of “a larger problem across computer science, with women comprising only 24% of the field of computer science in 2015”, according to the National Science Board.
Solution: Online platform connecting teenage girls aspiring to become the next generation of technologists to tech professionals to work on high-impact tech projects. Young women benefit from mentoring and apprenticeship opportunities posted on our platform by corporates.
Impact: Our platform will address the problem of diversity and inclusion head on. It will create opportunities for young women to learn the skills required by the industry.
A diversity shortage in STEM continues to plague economies globally, potentially costing $680bn to the EU alone by 2050 if current trends continue (European Institute for Gender Equality, 2017). With developments in fields such as artificial intelligence and data science radically transforming the world, a pressing challenge faced by the education sector preparing female students for a workplace requiring an understanding/appreciation of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science.
With an estimated rise between 5.3-24.7m in global unemployment (UN Report on Youth & Covid-19/March 2020), the impact on youth employment is likely to be severe given that youth, particularly young women (15-24 years), are already 3x more likely to be unemployed than adults. Closing gender gaps in STEM education would have a positive impact on future employment opportunities for young women.
As COVID-19 forces school closures in 185 countries, Plan International and UNESCO warn of the potential for increased drop-out rates which will disproportionately affect adolescent girls, further entrenching gender gaps in education. Many young women also struggle with their mental health due to isolation. Our platform offers a way to keep young women engaged with the online community of peers and mentors, whilst also upskilling them with industry-relevant skills.
Product:
An online platform connecting teenage girls aspiring to be the next generation of technologists and entrepreneurs to tech professionals to work on high-impact stechnology projects addressing UN SDGs. Aspiring technologists will benefit from mentoring/work/learning opportunities provided by our corporate partners contributing employee volunteering time.
Delivery:
We plan to layer the project on top of our existing hackathon model. These hackathons equip young women with the skills to rapidly develop technological solutions addressing local and global challenges.
Corporates will identify relevant projects that match their organisation's objectives and/or their employees' skills.
Our platform will:
* Showcase projects (already built)
* Organise/plan a company's employee volunteering program
* Collaboration tools: project planning, file storage, code repository, safe chatroom
* Smart impact and engagement dashboard, analytics and corporate social responsibility reporting.
Unique Approach:
Over the past 5 years, we have pioneered an industry-relevant pedagogy/project-based learning through hackathons, incubators and workshops for young people. We have built a large and active community of young people across the globe and strong ties to industry partners including Mastercard, Microsoft, QuantumBlack and Avanade. We have a strong track record of empowering young people with our alumni progressing to roles in organisations such as Microsoft and Accenture.
Our solution serves two main stakeholders:
1. Young women aged 12-18 looking for remote career-enhancing opportunities:
We have a strong, engaged community of young women of whom at least 50% come from minority ethnic/underprivileged/low income backgrounds.
Impact:
Our alumni have won experiences with institutions (Nesta, Mastercard, Element AI), developed the confidence to speak at international conferences (BBC, CogX, UN, EU), have been offered apprenticeship roles in corporates (Microsoft, Accenture) and have gone on to study Computer Science at Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh University and Imperial College.
2. Global corporate partners looking to engage employees, recruit and create social impact:
Corporates partner with us on our youth programs in markets of strategic importance to their respective business operations by offering mentors, inspirational speakers, judges and work experience opportunities and by running workshops in AI, ML, data science and Ethics.
Impact:
* Employee engagement/professional development
* Talent pipelines
* Brand visibility
* Social Impact
Our online platform will enable collaborative project-based learning for aspiring female technologists aided through skills-based volunteering/ mentoring on the part of industry leaders. The main area of focus is enabling career opportunities for young women and addressing the technology skills gap, which has economic benefits short, medium and long-term.
- Strengthen competencies, particularly in STEM and digital literacy, for girls and young women to effectively transition from education to employment
There is a staggering gender gap in the representation of women within the Computer Science field, comprising only 18% females. Even more concerning is that within AI, female representation stands at only 12% (WIRED). In fact, the proportion of AI papers co-authored by at least one woman has not, in relative terms, improved since the 1990s (Nesta).
We develop the talent pipeline by offering young teenage girls opportunities to learn about cutting-edge technologies and get mentored by industry leaders through work placements and apprenticeships. The majority of the girls in our community come from underprivileged or minority ethnic backgrounds.
- Prototype: A venture or organization building and testing its product, service, or business model
- A new business model or process
Product:
Online platform connecting teenage girls aspiring to be the next generation of technologists and entrepreneurs to tech professionals to work on high-impact tech projects. Young women will benefit from mentoring and work/learning opportunities provided by our existing corporate partners who will contribute employee volunteering time.
We plan to offer the platform in addition to our existing hackathon model. These hackathons equip young women with the skills to rapidly develop technological solutions to issues in local and global communities.
How we differ:
Education Space: Over the past 5 years, we have pioneered an industry-relevant project-based pedagogy through hackathons, incubators and workshops for young women. Most extra-curricular/ after school programmes focus mainly on coding (e.g. codeclub.org), app design and development (apps for good). Our holistic industry-relevant framework encompasses design thinking, business/ marketing, exposure to AI/ML/data science and ethics - all key to the responsible development of AI.
Corporate Mentoring Space: We will have corporates identify relevant projects that match their organisation's objectives and/or employee skill-sets. We have built a large and active community of young people across the world and strong ties to industry partners including Mastercard, Microsoft, QuantumBlack and Avanade. We have a strong track record of empowering young women within our alumni progressing to roles in organisations such as Microsoft and Accenture. We differ from competitors like guider-ai which aims instead to connect mentors and mentees within the same organisation. Our platform encourages external mentoring and coaching of young women as well developing employees’ mentoring skills, learning and development.
Our platform takes the form of a website built using industry standard frameworks.
A skeleton portal for women is showcased in the MVP. The MVP will be extended further to deliver important features including safeguarding and moderation frameworks, a safe chat room where users can schedule appointments with mentors, and an events system to show upcoming events and hackathons. We encourage our users to use existing third party collaboration tools for project planning, file storage and version control, as they would in industry. The platform was designed using Human-Centered Design principles, in close collaboration with our vibrant community of young women.
We will provide separate portals for mentors and corporates. Mentors will be able to browse existing projects and join those which match their skills.
In addition, ML techniques will be used to develop a recommender system to match mentors with projects, based upon others with similar skill sets. The recommender system will also be used to recommend mentors with skills projects require. A separate recommender system will also be built to highlight talent within the community and match them with employment/internship/work experience opportunities.
A dashboard will be provided for corporates with analytics and reporting of the number and type of projects employees are engaged on, engagement time, and the diversity of young people employees are engaging with.
We will test the platform in production with the high-load situation of a global online hackathon involving thousands of participants in partnership with QuantumBlack, Mastercard, Microsoft, Avanade and the Alan Turing Institute.
Our solution utilises a widely used and accepted technology built using industry standard frameworks. Our MVP can be found at: www.girlsinai.co.uk
The MVP platform is already in use by our community and showcases a number of projects from teams around the world.
This project is a digital extension of our in-person pedagogy which has been highly successful, with alumni going on to study STEM subjects at top universities or taking up employment at firms such as Microsoft or Accenture. According to the post-event survey from our latest physical event taking place across London and Paris, 86% of participants felt that they had improved in teamwork, 68% had improved in programming, and 79% had improved their research skills.
We have also seen success in the digital sphere. According to the post-event survey from our latest online hackathon, the top four skills participants developed were programming, design thinking, research and project management. Moreover, 94.9% of participants expressed interest in returning for online future events.
A small selection of our participants' projects can be found here:
https://teenshackcovid.devpost.com/
https://2018.spaceappschallenge.org/locations/london-teen
https://2019.spaceappschallenge.org/locations/london-teen
BBC My World have captured a team’s journey during one of our latest online global hackathons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ar0ux-_lVLI
- Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning
- Audiovisual Media
- Crowdsourced Service / Social Networks
- Software and Mobile Applications
Resources/ input: we are an experienced team with relevant skills in product development, technology and business; external developers; access to networks and partner ecosystem for funding, mentors, access to useful networks, datasets
Primary activities: curriculum development (AI, entrepreneurship, ethics); curriculum delivery through hackathons, bootcamps, accelerator programmes; high-impact projects developed by young people; coordinating opportunities for young people e.g. mentorships, internships, work experience, access to industry events/ panel discussions; employee engagement/volunteering/mentoring programs organised for corporate partners
Immediate outputs: our aspiring female technologists acquire industry relevant skills, develop a higher level of self-confidence and self-esteem, soft and hard skills, and secure access to career opportunities in the thriving tech sector, particularly careers in AI and data science.To date, 5000+ young people across the globe have enrolled in our programmes. Of these students, over 50% are young women, many of whom have gone on to study Computer Science at prestigious universities and some have secured internships at global tech giants like Microsoft, Accenture and Goldman Sachs.
Intermediate outcomes: more young women studying STEM subjects and going on to pursue research and technology careers. Some of our older alumni return to mentor current members of our community. They often serve as role models, and bring in opportunities from their respective employment and/or institutions. Technology breaks down geographical barriers and will offer opportunities for young women across the world to connect through passion for tech for good and peer-to-peer mentoring.
Our long-term impact: we aim to level the playing field for young girls by offering them opportunities to effectively transition from education to employment in the tech sector, which will further improve gender representation of women in STEM. Young girls who have been empowered with access/industry-relevant skills serve as role models, in itself resulting in a virtuous cycle of more women going into STEM. Long-term, this will have an impact on diversity in tech and have further benefits on the global economy. McKinsey’s latest report “Diversity Still Matters” (2020) makes a strong case for the importance of diversity for business, and it being critical for the economy’s recovery in the post-pandemic world.
- Women & Girls
- LGBTQ+
- Children & Adolescents
- Peri-Urban
- Urban
- Poor
- Low-Income
- Middle-Income
- Minorities & Previously Excluded Populations
- Persons with Disabilities
- 1. No Poverty
- 4. Quality Education
- 5. Gender Equality
- 8. Decent Work and Economic Growth
- 10. Reduced Inequalities
- 17. Partnerships for the Goals
- France
- Ghana
- Kenya
- Nigeria
- Poland
- Romania
- United Kingdom
- United States
- France
- Germany
- Ghana
- Italy
- Kenya
- Kuwait
- Mongolia
- Nigeria
- Poland
- Romania
- Tanzania
- United Arab Emirates
- United Kingdom
- United States
Our flagships programs in the last five years alone have impacted 5000 young people, of which at least 50% are young women
We currently have 1500 corporate employees in our network who benefit from mentoring young people
In one year the number of young people, particularly women, we will impact will grow to 20,000. The number of employees we will engage will go up to 6,000. This is due to positive conversations we are holding with corporates like Microsoft, Avanade, Mastercard and Visa who support our operations in the UK, Europe and Africa.
In 5 years, we aim to scale our operations to 150 countries (already in process with Microsoft) and impact millions of young people. particularly young women in harder to reach countries of Africa and South East and Central Asia. The technology we are building right now will allow us to do this at scale.
Our goal within the next year is to develop the technological infrastructure/ platform to enable more young women across the globe to benefit from access to corporate mentoring, apprenticeships and work placements in the tech sector, specifically AI and data science. In this way, we will be able to scale the benefits we have seen within our existing community. After we build the platform, testing and refining will continue to be our primary focus.
As we increase the number of young female technologists/entrepreneurs on our platform, we will also strengthen and grow our partner ecosystem to provide opportunities to young girls around the world, particularly in less developed countries.
At the same time, corporates who engage with us will see the new talent they acquire through our platform transform their company culture and benefit those companies long-term. In 5 years will will see a much more diverse workforce across companies who invest into diversity and inclusion and engage their employees in mentoring young women.
Our goal is to ensure every girl in every country across the world understands the opportunities STEM will offer to her and enable every girl to reach her full potential. Whereas now there are less than 20% women in the tech sector, we aim to raise this number to at least 50%, thus leveling the playing field through opportunities that will open to the young women. Not only this, we ensure that the young women we impact come from BAME (Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic) backgrounds.
FINANCIAL: Delivering a high standard of service, resources and mentoring to our community proves quite expensive. A large proportion of the women we work with are underprivileged and unable to cover the full cost - hence our team works with corporate partners who fund our activities. However, access to partner funding will prove to be a constraint in the COVID economic recession. One of the first budgets that corporates tend to restrict is diversity and inclusion as well as CSR. This is the reason why we would like to move our operation into the digital realm, i.e. to reduce our operations and stuffing costs and grow at scale.
ECONOMIC/ PANDEMIC: The economic recession due to COVID means that there are fewer work opportunities out there for everyone, especially women. Furthermore, the need for social distancing and remote work/education limits opportunity. Women are far more affected by this than men are.
CULTURAL: The tech sector deters young women to enter due to a strong misconception that math and computer science is a male-dominated space. Furthermore, sexism and racism in the workplace are not uncommon.
FINANCIAL: Women from underprivileged backgrounds do not have the access to role models, mentors and employment opportunities necessary for social mobility. Their families cannot afford expensive coding schools or industry events for networking. When corporates sponsor our programmes, we are able to offer young women free access to our programmes. They are equipped with skills to develop high-impact technology projects. Our platform then enables us to match these young women and their projects with relevant industry mentors. Where corporate funding falls short, our business model requires young people from private schools to pay, so that those from less privileged backgrounds can participate for free. By acquiring industry-relevant tech skills which are in high demand globally, our alumni are able to secure employment opportunities.
ECONOMIC/ PANDEMIC: The economic recession is hastening digital transformation across the world. Our programme and platform is intended to support enterprising young women in a way that enables them to pursue an education and work in the technology space. These pathways are proving to be pandemic-resistant. We have taken steps to move our events online with great success - our pilot 2-week event was a hit with 94.9% of participants expressing interest in future online events.
CULTURAL: Our alumni serve as inspirational role-models for current members of our community and often offer mentorship to help them take the first steps into the world of tech.
- For-profit, including B-Corp or similar models
Founded in 2015, Acorn Aspirations is a multi-award winning social enterprise. The company launched the Teens In AI initiative at UN AI for Good Summit in May 2018 to inspire and equip more young people aged 12-18 years to use AI and entrepreneurship for social good. Enhancing diversity and inclusion in tech (gender, income, ethnicity) in a way that empowers underrepresented groups is fundamental to the way we operate.
Full time staff: 3
Part time staff/ consultants/ contractors: 2
Interns: 3
Our project team expertise lies in technology, entrepreneurship and business. We have the track record, capacity and capability to deliver the project successfully and on time despite working restrictions of Covid-19. We are able to take on developers on a contract basis to ensure we are able to build and deploy the digital platform.
The team and roles:
Elena Sinel, CEO Acorn Aspirations and Co-Founder Teens In AI: Having spent 10 years travelling, volunteering and working in some of the most deprived places in the world - Uzbekistan, where she grew up, the Balkans, Ethiopia and Bangladesh, Elena has seen the power of entrepreneurship when fused with education and technology. Elena will oversee overall project management for the platform. Elena is a multi-award winning social entrepreneur, sought after keynote speaker (UN, EU, CogX and other conferences) and is passionate about making a difference in young women's lives. Her latest two awards in Mobile World Congress for Leadership and Diversity are testimony to this. https://www.gsma.com/newsroom/press-release/gsma-announces-winners-of-the-2020-glomo-awards/ Her short bio can be viewed here.
Peter He, Co-founder, Tech-Lead, Teens In AI: Peter will supervise development, set up technical infrastructure, translate partners' and community feedback into technical specifications.
Ayesha Silveira, Partnerships Director, Acorn Aspirations: Ayesha will handle legal and commercial aspects of the project and manage relationships with partners
Harvinder Bhogal, Marketing Lead: Harvinder specialises in digital marketing and will oversee the promotion and marketing campaign for our platform
Rah Kapoor, Developer, External Contractor: The majority of development work will be undertaken by Rahat.
We currently partner with various stakeholders for our work:
We work with Corporates: We are aiming to provide young women with a platform to channel their energies constructively, and are connecting them with corporate employees who are keen to volunteer their time for mentoring, delivering inspiring talks and hosting workshops. Corporate partners include QuantumBlack, Avanade, Mastercard, Microsoft, BBC, CogX, JP Morgan, offering varying levels of support. More corporates see the benefit of working with us to source talent differently and more intelligently.
Our latest partnership with Microsoft will see Girls in AI (Alice Envisions The Future DigiGirlz AI) scale across 150 countries through Microsoft's employee engagement programs.
We work with Governments and Charities: In 2020-21 we have been commissioned by the Brunei Government to inspire young people (male and female) in 170 schools, as well as have partnered with NGOs and charities the likes of Raleigh International to inspire young people (male and female) aged 18-25 in Tanzania, Costa Rica and Nepal (in partnership with Dell Technologies).
We work with schools: This year marks our foray into schools; we plan to collaborate with private/ state school teachers to develop and pilot a brand new inter-disciplinary AI/ data science curriculum/ framework with real world/ industry relevance in select schools in London.
We consult on curriculum: We will continue to consult corporates and governments as knowledge partners on cutting-edge ‘Tech for Good’ educational curriculum.
For our platform however, we plan to partner with corporates to start with.
Key resources/team: We are a small lean team with expertise in technology, entrepreneurship and business. We have the track-record, capacity and capability to deliver the project on time during and despite the working restrictions of COVID-19.
Product/activities: Online platform connecting teenage girls aspiring to become future technologists to tech professionals to work on high-impact technology projects. Young women will benefit from mentoring and work/learning opportunities provided by our existing corporate partners who will contribute by way of employee volunteering time.
Beneficiaries: Our platform will give young female technologists aged 12-18 an opportunity to learn cutting-edge technology and skills required by industry. It will also engage corporates' employees into purposeful skills-based volunteering and enable corporates to recruit talented young women, thus improving diversity in tech.
Customers/Partners: Many organizations will need to improve their talent pipelines, especially female representation in tech jobs post-COVID-19.
Route to market/channel:
- Our alumni community has 5000+ youth based across the world looking for remote career-enhancing opportunities due to COVID-19
- Our corporate partner networks collaborate with us on our flagship events or commission us to host bespoke hackathon events in markets of strategic importance to their respective business operations.
Costs: Comprises labour (for project management, managing partner networks, legal/finance/contract negotiation, marketing); materials (purchase AWS/other tools for platform development) and subcontracting costs (technical consulting and online platform development).
Revenue expectation: Once the platform is built and as we already have a first few corporate partners interested to trial, it should be able to fund itself through organic sales/income.
- Organizations (B2B)
We are revenue generating and have never had to raise from angels or VCs. We are growing organically and are proud of it.
Funding options we are considering: We plan to bring in money to fund our work by applying for grants from governments and philanthropies and selling our product offering to existing/ new corporate partners.
How this project will add value to our existing business: Our platform enables us to build a tech interface between corporates and aspiring young female technologists/ entrepreneurs. This will provide us with additional revenue streams by charging corporates for using our platform to recruit from our talent pool and to organise employee engagement programs.
How we will deliver outcomes and impact beyond the life of the project: The platform will be built as an MVP. Once we have the first corporate partners signed up, it will be able to fund itself through organic sales.
Wider support we may need: We are constantly looking for like-minded global partners in industry, academia and government support.
We are very excited to apply as Solver and are looking to MIT Solve to:
Receive access to vital seed funding to cover the cost of technology, in-house staff and external consultants for our platform
Join a supportive community of peers, funders, and experts to help advance our innovative work through Solve's nine-month program
Access to MIT Solve's community of experts and networks who are doing similar work to exchange advice, support and learning. We are keen to meet with potential partners who will help us expand into new markets and connect us with corporates, governments and philanthropic organisations.
We are applying to Solve because we would greatly benefit from assistance to validate the impact we are achieving.
We strongly believe with Solve's help we will be able to make a difference in STEM and engage millions of young girls across the globe to upskill in digital and other industry relevant skills to help them transition from education to employment
- Business model
- Product/service distribution
- Funding and revenue model
- Board members or advisors
- Legal or regulatory matters
- Monitoring and evaluation
- Marketing, media, and exposure
We would like to partner with MIT to support our curriculum development and ensure continued industry-relevance.
We are also keen to partner with tech companies like Google, Facebook, Amazon, Nvidia, Amgen, Merck, Merrill Lynch, Ford, Dupont, Microsoft, AstraZeneca, Verizon and HP to secure mentors, inspirational speakers, internships and an employment pipeline for our young aspiring female technologists.
Many of our young female alumni are actively pursuing a career in research and would benefit greatly from research opportunities and scholarships
We would benefit greatly from connections to Foundations, family offices and philanthropic institutions that are strategically aligned to our mission of improving the representation of young women in tech.
We seek to evaluate and validate our impact and scale our operations across other parts of the world, particularly African countries where women have little access to opportunities to learn from industry leaders and explore careers in tech.
We would like to partner with MIT to support our curriculum development and ensure continued industry-relevance.
We are also keen to partner with tech companies like Google, Facebook, Amazon, Nvidia, Amgen, Merck, Merrill Lynch, Ford, Dupont, Microsoft, AstraZeneca, Verizon and HP to secure mentors, inspirational speakers, internships and an employment pipeline for our young aspiring female technologists.
Many of our young female alumni are actively pursuing a career in research and would benefit greatly from research opportunities and scholarships
We would benefit greatly from connections to Foundations, family offices and philanthropic institutions that are strategically aligned to our mission of improving the representation of young women in tech.
We seek to evaluate and validate our impact and scale our operations across other parts of the world, particularly African countries where women have little access to opportunities to learn from industry leaders and explore careers in tech.
We qualify for this prize because our solution aims to solve the under-representation of women in tech and tackles the Learning for Girls and Women challenge.
We would love to work with young women refugees and offer them opportunities to learn AI, data science and other industry-relevant skills to help further their career ambitions. We also feel it would be beneficial to integrate young women from refugee communities and connect them with young women across the world for all the inspire one another, mentor one another and learn cutting-edge skills together. This cross-cultural dialogue, the connections young women will forge with one another and the industry will be advantageous for all.
We will use the prize to build the technology that will power connections and interactions between young women refugees across the world and with others. This will offer them an opportunity to re-build their lives, work remotely and earn a high level of income that AI and data science industry is very well known for.
We qualify for this prize because our solution aims to solve the under-representation of women in tech and tackles the Learning for Girls and Women challenge.
Since starting our work in 2015 we have had many young women pursue STEM careers in tech giants like Microsoft, Accenture and Goldman Sachs. Many of our young women have spoken in conference, including the UN, EU and World AI Summit speaking about their AI innovations and the difference our programs make to their lives.
We will use the grant to cover the cost of building the technology that will connect young women to more opportunities and will amplify their voices and their ability to make a difference from a young age by building AI for Good products that address the needs of their local and global communities.
Our Founder Elena Sinel is a multi-award winning social entrepreneur and is passionate about making a difference in young women's lives and her latest two awards in Mobile World Congress for Industry Leadership and Diversity in Tech are testimony to this: https://www.gsma.com/newsroom/press-release/gsma-announces-winners-of-the-2020-glomo-awards/
We qualify for this prize because our solution aims to solve the under-representation of women in tech and tackles the Learning for Girls and Women challenge.
We would welcome an opportunity to work with GM to further our mission outlined in the proposed solution and improve opportunities for vulnerable girls to access STEM education.
We will use the prize to build the technology that will enable GM employees (and other corporates) across the globe to mentor young women by teaching them the skills that matter to industry. We have already organised similar employee-engagement opportunities for Microsoft and Mastercard face-to-face and online. The technology we are building will allow for remote mentoring during online hackathons, which are equally impactful. The technology will also allow GM to tap into diverse talent and recruit from this talent. We would also welcome GM assistance in helping us with the engineering and scale of our technology.
Our Founder Elena Sinel is a multi-award winning social entrepreneur and is passionate about making a difference in young women's lives and her latest two awards in Mobile World Congress for Industry Leadership and Diversity in Tech are testimony to this. https://www.gsma.com/newsroom/press-release/gsma-announces-winners-of-the-2020-glomo-awards/
Our solution aims to solve the under-representation of women in tech and tackles the Learning for Girls and Women challenge. Our programmes have a specific focus on developing skills in AI, ML and data science, as well as the ethics surrounding them. We focus on developing young women's hard and soft skills and offer them opportunities to transition from education to employment to land a job that will improve their and their families' lives.
We use machine learning in the following ways: will be using a recommendation engine to match young women's projects with relevant mentors and we will also be using this engine to recommend apprenticeship and job opportunities for young women.
We believe we qualify for this prize because our solution aims to turn this world into a more equal and just place to live in and empowering young women into STEM careers will definitely help us address current diversity and gender gaps in technology careers. Women deserve to be in leading positions and have an opportunity to make an impact. Our platform will offer young women opportunities to upskill themselves and claim that seat at that table where they deserve to be. The world of tomorrow will benefit from having more women as CEOs, CTOs, thought leaders and changemakers who will be shaping the world.
Our Founder Elena Sinel is a multi-award winning social entrepreneur and is passionate about making a difference in young women's lives and her latest two awards in Mobile World Congress for Leadership and Diversity are testimony to this. https://www.gsma.com/newsroom/press-release/gsma-announces-winners-of-the-2020-glomo-awards/
Our solution aims to solve the issue of gender diversity in STEM and therefore bring new perspectives to the table when discussing humanity's most pressing problems. We believe we have the potential to impact millions of young women who currently do not have opportunities to learn about careers in STEM.
Our Founder Elena Sinel is a multi-award winning social entrepreneur and is passionate about making a difference in young women's lives and her latest two awards in Mobile World Congress for Industry Leadership and Diversity in Tech are testimony to this. https://www.gsma.com/newsroom/press-release/gsma-announces-winners-of-the-2020-glomo-awards/

Founder & CEO